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I’ve been trying to secure copies of the television series, “Route 66″, since before last Christmas. My dad had a speaking role in one of the episodes filmed here in Cleveland and I’ve been wanting to see it for years. I also wanted to make it available to my family. To make a long story short, I tried buying it from a site I thought was okay and ended up getting burned. I got my money refunded, but that was due to my bank. My question is this: Which sites ARE okay to do business with? Any suggestions?

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I was successful in converting from Cassette to my computer then I exported as .wav. I wanted to create a CD that would play in my car DVD player and was told that I need to convert to .dca but is your free Audacity download able to do this conversion? I want to transfer my music from my cassettes to a CD where that CD will pay in my vehicle player. Any thoughts or advice on this topic.

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When our son played high school football during 1987 & 1988 I recorded the FM radio broadcast of each game on to VHS tapes and then I added TV highlights at the end.  As a present to him I would like to transfer these tapes, 20 more or less, to preferably DVD’s.  With 20 years plus age on these tapes I would like to do so while they are in reasonably good condition.  I have a Sony RDR-GX7 DVD recorder which I have used to copy VHS tapes that have both audio and video as well as tapes from my Sony Hi-8 camcorder to DVD’s with much success.  However, my dilemma is that my VCR will not produce a recognizable sound track of the audio only portions of the tapes to transfer.  I have a Dell Dimension 8400 with plenty of capacity with CD and DVD burners, Sonic programs as well as Pinnacle software.  Also I am considering buying DVD/VCR combo to replace one of my VCR’s that just died.  Can you offer a procedure including equipment to complete my task?
 
Thank you for any advice you may be able give me.

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I have bought a Honda civic 1997 make with factory built CD player system ( make: Gathers). it plays only original CD not MP3 format, wav format or any other.

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Why do so many (older) DVD ROM players balk at playing DVD+R discs?

Dubbing my old VHS tapes to DVD format (new sony dubbing deck that will record on ALL DVD formats) and although I had heard the safest bet was to use -R to insure compatibility with most DVD ROM units I had some +R lying around. Both of my DVD ROM players are a few years old but one did come with Cyberlink Power DVDxp so it isn’t THAT old. Both of my boxes stall whenever I try to play one of these +R discs and I usually have to restart.

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